A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.